New-harddisk commandlet

Question

After reviewing VMwares documentation on this cmdlet I have attempted to add harddrives to a VM using the -controller and -datastore parameters.
What i would like to do is specify the following
new-harddrive -vm $Vm -capacity ($size*1mb) -storageformat "Thick" -controller '0,10' -datastore '[san-data-050]'
This obviously did not work because the controller object and datastore do not accept those arguments. After doing some more research i attempted the solutions below:
Problem 1:
I understand that -controller only accepts the bas controller and i have written a function that pulls the base controller object from the vm using:
$scsictrl = get-scsicontroller -vm $vm | %{$_.name -eq "SCSI controlelr $SCSI"}
Now that thats solved, i still cannot specify the scsi id or port i wish to.
Problem 2:
After that problem could not be solved, i attempted to solve the $datastore issue. I attempted to:
$datastore = 'san-data-050'
get-datastore | Where-object {$_.name -eq $datastore}
Which yields the datastore object and insert it intot he code without the controller parameter present.
This also did not work.
Before anyone comments about Onyx, ive already gotten several scripts and attmpted several times to get that method to work as well. It launches a task but the task fails once it hits VCenter and i cannot identify why, but regardless, it is overly complicated for what should be a straight forward single-line solution.
Does anyone know how i might solve the above issues?

Answer 1

PowerCLI Version
   VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.0.1 build 581491
Snapin Versions
   VMware AutoDeploy PowerCLI Component 5.0 build 544967
   VMware ImageBuilder PowerCLI Component 5.0 build 544967
   VMware License PowerCLI Component 5.0 build 544881
   VMware vSphere PowerCLI Component 5.0 build 581435
Just tried the onyx version:
function add-VMhdd{
  <#
  .SYNOPSIS
  This function logs whatever is passed to C:\temp\nm-setup.txt
  .DESCRIPTION
    Function assigns date, uses logpathlocal variable to determine location and encodes everything to ASCII.
  .EXAMPLE
  logme "Logging this text here"
.PARAMETER $Datastore
Specify the datastore in the following format [san-data-n080]
  #>
    param (
[Parameter(Mandatory=$True,Position=0)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [String]$VMname,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$True,Position=1)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [String]$datastore,
    [Parameter(Mandatory=$True,Position=2)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [String]$sizeinKB,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$True,Position=3)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [String]$scsiAdaptor,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$True,Position=4)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [String]$scsiNumber
$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
$spec.deviceChange = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualDeviceConfigSpec[] (1)
$spec.deviceChange[0] = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualDeviceConfigSpec
$spec.deviceChange[0].operation = "add"
$spec.deviceChange[0].fileOperation = "create"
$spec.deviceChange[0].device = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualDisk
$spec.deviceChange[0].device.key = -100
#specify datastore and persistance
$spec.deviceChange[0].device.backing = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo
$spec.deviceChange[0].device.backing.fileName = "$datastore"
$spec.deviceChange[0].device.backing.diskMode = "persistent"
$spec.deviceChange[0].device.backing.split = $false
$spec.deviceChange[0].device.backing.writeThrough = $false
$spec.deviceChange[0].device.backing.thinProvisioned = $false
$spec.deviceChange[0].device.backing.eagerlyScrub = $false
#setdisk properties
$spec.deviceChange[0].device.connectable = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualDeviceConnectInfo
$spec.deviceChange[0].device.connectable.startConnected = $true
$spec.deviceChange[0].device.connectable.allowGuestControl = $false
$spec.deviceChange[0].device.connectable.connected = $true
#Figure out how to specify controller and units
$adaptor = get-Vmscsicontroller $VMname $scsiAdaptor
$scsiControlerNumber = $adaptor.id.split("/")[1]
$spec.deviceChange[0].device.controllerKey = $scsiControlerNumber
$spec.deviceChange[0].device.unitNumber = $scsiNumber
$spec.deviceChange[0].device.capacityInKB = $sizeinKB
#return the UID of the vm and place in view
$VMID = (get-vm $VMname).id
$_this = Get-View -Id "$VMID"
$_this.ReconfigVM_Task($spec)
PS C:\users\ron5667\desktop\ps> add-vmhdd "ntaddh0075m00" '[san-and-n080]' '1048576' '0' '11'Type                                                                                                      Value                                                                                                   
Task                                                                                                      task-719119
The task works; however, it shows invalid conifguration in VCENTER.